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University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 42
USC Law Center, to be completed by Spring, 1970.
New Law Center construction to begin this month, end 1970
Before the end of November, excavation will begin in another of the scarce parking lots on campus. By Spring. 1970 a new building to house the Law Center will take its place among the completed milestones of the Master Plan.
The new structure of more than
84,000 square feet will be located on Exposition Boulevard just east of Hoffman Hall. The old parking lot will not be missed for a new one for 300 cars will be opened up west of Olin Hall of Engineering.
The new four-story building will replace one constructed in 1926, the oldest building that houses an accredited law school.
Eight case study rooms are included in the plans.
The case study rooms will facilitate
the method of teaching used at the Law Center. There are no lectures. Questions are raised and issues are discussed. There are no modern case study rooms in the old law building.
Instead of having about one third of its books scattered in various storerooms throughout the building and lining the hallways, the stacks will be centralized in two complete floors of the new building.
The new library is expected to allow normal growth of the stacks for the next 15 years. Besides the regular stacks there will be a special collections section.
Space is reserved for 200 students to study, but not in a main reading room. There will be 50 individually enclosed study carols and 10 smaller study rooms.
In the building a suite will also be provided for the Law Review, a periodical published by the law school.
The number of law students will not increase when the new building is completed. It will consist of about 400 undergraduate law students. Dorothy Nelson, associate Dean of the Law School, said, “It was decided that the
Law School should remain small and give an unique kind of education.”
In addition, an advanced professional program will be offered by the Law Center. This will allow 400 professional lawyers to further their education at night.
The firm of Collins and McPherson holds a contract for the building for $2,417,300. The company was also contractor for White Phillips Hall of Education and Vivian Hall of Engineering.
The total cost of the building will be $3 million. This will include furnishings, separate bids for the library stacks and architectural and engineering fees.
By HEIDI FLYNN
“Israel is not going to accept any kind of substitute for a real peace,” said Lt. General Itzhak Rabin, Israeli ambassador to the United States, in a speech to a near capacity crowd in Hancock Auditorium yesterday afternoon.
Rabin expressed doubt that such a peace will be forthcoming in the near future, but he stated that Israel is determined to fight to keep her status.
“Israel will try her best to explore every avenue, to make every compromise which is practical to achieve that peace. But, we have to be realistic. We have to face realities. We know that it is not enough to be just, you have to be strong enough to defend yourself.
“We have learned, that even though we are only two and a half million, and there are sixty to eighty million Arabs, there would be no problem for us, militarily, to withstand Arab forces by ourselves. We can take care of ourselves if we can maintain the same proportions of military hardware.”
He is not optimistic about the chance for peace, because as he said, “unfortunately, the governing factors in that part of the world are not logical, not reasoning.”
He cited other major factors as obstacles to peace. The first, in his eyes, is the fact that one side is seeking total annihilation of the other side, who wants only peaceful co-habitation. The second is that the Middle East is not one entity, and as such, not all the Arab countries want the same thing.
“We say to our neighbors we are ready to talk and negotiate peace. But, a peace should be agreed, and not
'DEAR FRIENDS’
CONTINUING
IN STOP GAP
''Dear Friends,” an Experimental Theater production, opened in Stop Gap Theatre last night. It will continue through Saturday.
Due to an oversight, the Daily Trojan neglected to publicize the opening of the play.
Tickets for "Dear Friends" are priced at $2.50. Curtain time for all performances is 8:30 p.m.
Coro Foundation seeks to build leaders for community action
Unidentified Cowboy
Wayne will perform in Hope show
USC alumnus John “Duke” Wayne, will return to his alma mater to perform in the Bob “USC” Hope Show, Nov. 25 in the Sports Arena, Bob Hope Productions announced over the weekend.
Appearing with Wayne will be Hope, Glen Campbell. Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66, Juliet Prowse. “Sweet Dick” Whittington, Les Brown and his band of Renown and the USC football squad in a program designed to raise money for scholarships to disadvantaged students.
Wayne served as the 1967-68 National Chairman of the annual Giving Program, an alumni appeal.
Choice seats for the show are still available at Bovard Auditorium or the Sports Arena box office. Ticket prices are $25. $7.50. $5. and $3.
Pretend you are a member of the Board of Health in a city threatened by an epidemic. How would you allocate vaccine and handle publicity to inform the public of the danger?
This is the type of question a student might be asked as an applicant to the Coro Foundation internship program. The aim of the program is to merge the academic world with the real one to increase community awareness and personal effectiveness.
With intern programs in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the foundation works with organizations like the Watts Labor Community Action Council, the city manager’s office and labor union councils to provide its interns with first hand experience with the day to day functioning of the community.
Although the program has been compared to a post-graduate course in public administration, training prople for office is not its sole purpose. Its goal is to provide the community with leaders and persons who can be agents of change, including the woman who is married and becomes president of the PTA. The key word is interest.
The nine-month program, starting in September each year, involves a series of six-week training assignments with government agencies, businesses, labor unions, and community agencies. These assignments are supplemented with weekly seminar meetings in which the interns present reports, interview guests, and do projects under the supervision of the Coro staff.
A five-week group project is conducted with the interns doing field research on such topics as the administration of criminal justice, employment and unemployment, and urban regeneration.
Each intern also conducts a two month individual research project for a public or semi-public agency in the field of his own special interest.
Interns are granted a $3,600 fellowship, and are usually given a 11-S draft status during their internship.
Students who are interested in the program may make appointments for interviews through the Placement office in Bruce Hall. Applications for the program may also be obtained at the Los Angeles office of the Coro Foundation at 649 S. Olive St.
imposed,” he said, explaining however that the Israelis would be willing to have intermediaries to help clear away the underbrush before serious talks were begun.
“We do not seek real estate. We seek peace and security arrangements.”
From time to time there was heckling from some Arab students in the audience, but most of it did not come until later when Rabin took questions from the audience.
The heckling began when he touched upon the subject of guerilla warfare. Someone in the audience shouted “Murder” and he replied simply “whatever you want to call it. I do not care.”
He repeatedly stressed the idea that whatever happens, the Israelis will survive it. His bravado was cool and softspoken, but unmistakeable.
The problem for him seemed to be not st much if Israel can survive war, he is sure she can, but whether or not
ASSC Council meets today
The ASSC Executive Council will meet today at 3 p.m. in Student Activities Center 201.
Independent representative Jeff Elliot will present a resolution on military conscription to the council, and reports on the campus police investigation and graduate student social life will be given.
she will be able to continue her economic and social development as a nation under such conditions.
“Unless peace can be achieved, we will have to live under a certain burden. However, we can live with it.”
He cited the country’s progress during the past twenty years, a period of sporadic fighting, as proof that they will be able to continue their growth.
“The reason Israel was created was not to fight wars. The main reason was, to try to renew, to rebuild a Jewish state, based on traditional Jewish values, coupled with Western civilization, to serve as a model of democracy in that part of the world.”
During the question and answer period, he was asked about the refugee problem. He replied by bringing up the example of the Jews who have spent hundreds of years as refugees. He agreed that something must be done for these people though, and he denied that any one lived in refugee concentration camps today. He said that they have the same rights as other citizens, except that Arabs are not forced to serve in the armed forces.
Concerning the role of the Soviet Union in Middle Eastern problems, he said that he did not think the Arab nations were Communists, but circumstances have lead the Russians and the Arabs to have common interests.
The Arab students had remained rather polite during the speech, with a few loud exceptions. As he left, they rose to give him a standing ovation, friendly or otherwise.
Trustees order S.F. State opened 'now’
LOS ANGELES (CNS)-California State College Trustees have ordered the San Francisco campus opened “immediately.”
The action followed a day-long meeting of the board in Los Angeles yesterday.
The trustees also ruled that campus administrators could not negotiate, arbitrate or concede to student groups until the college was functioning normally.
The trustees action, however, did not specifically state when the campus would be open, leaving that decision up to Robert R. Smith, president of the college.
In a sense the resolution, passed by voice vote, was almost an endorsement of an earlier announcement by Smith that he plans to reopen the college tomorrow.
Gov. Ronald Reagan, an ex-officio member and president of the board, said he was satisfied with the resolution.
The college president admitted the problem on campus was not solved and administrators had not worked out specific demands which led to the strike.
Smith closed the college Wednesday due to violence sparked by the suspension of George Madon Murray, a Black Panther, as a part-time English instructor.
Glenn S. Dumke, state college chancellor, ordered Murray suspended due to the Black Panther’s alleged inflammatory statements. He has said that he will not rescind the suspension order.
Medium to speak at noon today
A noted psychic researcher will speak on “New Dimensions of Religion and Science” today at noon in the Student Activities Center. The speech is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
Arthur Ford, once hailed as “America’s most famous living medium,” was the “sensitive” involved in the televised account of Bishop James Pike’s alleged communication with his deceased son. This is detailed in Pike’s recent book “The Other Side,” currently being published in installments by Look magazine.
Ford’s 40 years of experience as an investigator of psychic phenomena are described in his auto biography, “Nothing So Strange.”
CLIMBING FILM SET TONIGHT
Mountaineer Paul Gerhard will speak tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center, not tonight as reported in yesterday's Daily Trojan.
Gerhard will stage a 90-minute presentation with photographs of the 1968 Mt. St. Elias expedition. Admission is $1.50.
Burl Ives flick shot near campus
Alienation from society to be discussed tonight
“The New Student’s Alienation from Society” is the topic of a speech to be given tonight at 8 in Hancock Auditorium as part of a series sponsored by the Experimental College!.
Dr. David W. Martin, professor of sociology1 in the School of Education and director of the KRLA-KUSC Free University of the Air. will give the second in a series of four speeches. The series, for parents and students, is entitled “The New Student: His Values, Politics. Loves and Highs.”
As part of his presentation. Dr.
Martin will present a film and slide show, “Fresh Garbage.” The film, which requires six slide projectors and two movie projectors on three screens, attempts to illustrate the nature of today’s music and show how it reflects the alienation of students to society. The Department of Instructional Technology' produced the film.
According to Steve Foldes, chairman of the Experimental College, “Dr. Martin should blow the parents’ minds!” Admission to the speech and film is free.
By JAN SHORT
Characteristically tipping his tweed cap and puffing a pipe, Burl Ives lumbered up to a two-story white house on 30th Street near the USC campus yesterday afternoon and greeted a Negro housewife hosing the front lawn.
“Pardon me, M’am, do you know where I can find my son ...”
“CUT! Next time cut off the hose!”
The neighborhood spectators began to mill around as Ives dropped his briefcase and conversed with the sweatshirted director and the “landlady” on the sidewalk.
Completing the 11th and final day of local shooting yesterday for a Universal City television pilot called “The Whole World is Watching,” the same cast and crew has good chances of permanently working togather next year in the pilot’s series, “The Adversaries.”
“It has excellent chances ... I’d say about 90 percnet ... of being sold to NBC,” production manager Kenneth Grossman predicted, watching the hussle from his folding chair behind the camera line. Grossman has been producing “Trojan Huddle” with Coach John McKay for nine years.
“It’s going to be a Defender-type series about three lawyers in a legal firm. Ives, James Farentino, and Joe Campenella will star.
“This particular episode deals with revolts in colleges. A policeman has been killed and Ives traces the murder-suspect to this apartment house. We’ve spent five nights and four days over in Exposition Park, our unidentified college. This morning we were filming some scenes around Alice’s and Currie’s.”
Ives ambled over to his chair next to Grossman’s, joining in the explanation of the projected series and carrying on an animated conversation with a six or seven-year-old Negro girl at the same time.
“This series is going to deal with important questions,” the bearded Ives said, examining the tin foil diamond ring of his admirer. “My only other attempt at a regular show was about three years ago, a fantastic flop called ‘O.K. Crackerbox.’ Nobody watched it here but it went over great in Ireland.”
“Ouch! You hurt my hand!” the little girl teased. Ives withdrew his massive hand, then sheepishly stuck out one fat finger for her to shake.
FILMING AT USC—Dick Colla, director, Charlie Straumer, cameraman, Joseph Campanella, actor, and an unidentified technician discuss progress of TV Pilot "The Adversaries." Photo by Jamie Baldwin
Israel wants only 'real' peace, ambassador says

University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 42
USC Law Center, to be completed by Spring, 1970.
New Law Center construction to begin this month, end 1970
Before the end of November, excavation will begin in another of the scarce parking lots on campus. By Spring. 1970 a new building to house the Law Center will take its place among the completed milestones of the Master Plan.
The new structure of more than
84,000 square feet will be located on Exposition Boulevard just east of Hoffman Hall. The old parking lot will not be missed for a new one for 300 cars will be opened up west of Olin Hall of Engineering.
The new four-story building will replace one constructed in 1926, the oldest building that houses an accredited law school.
Eight case study rooms are included in the plans.
The case study rooms will facilitate
the method of teaching used at the Law Center. There are no lectures. Questions are raised and issues are discussed. There are no modern case study rooms in the old law building.
Instead of having about one third of its books scattered in various storerooms throughout the building and lining the hallways, the stacks will be centralized in two complete floors of the new building.
The new library is expected to allow normal growth of the stacks for the next 15 years. Besides the regular stacks there will be a special collections section.
Space is reserved for 200 students to study, but not in a main reading room. There will be 50 individually enclosed study carols and 10 smaller study rooms.
In the building a suite will also be provided for the Law Review, a periodical published by the law school.
The number of law students will not increase when the new building is completed. It will consist of about 400 undergraduate law students. Dorothy Nelson, associate Dean of the Law School, said, “It was decided that the
Law School should remain small and give an unique kind of education.”
In addition, an advanced professional program will be offered by the Law Center. This will allow 400 professional lawyers to further their education at night.
The firm of Collins and McPherson holds a contract for the building for $2,417,300. The company was also contractor for White Phillips Hall of Education and Vivian Hall of Engineering.
The total cost of the building will be $3 million. This will include furnishings, separate bids for the library stacks and architectural and engineering fees.
By HEIDI FLYNN
“Israel is not going to accept any kind of substitute for a real peace,” said Lt. General Itzhak Rabin, Israeli ambassador to the United States, in a speech to a near capacity crowd in Hancock Auditorium yesterday afternoon.
Rabin expressed doubt that such a peace will be forthcoming in the near future, but he stated that Israel is determined to fight to keep her status.
“Israel will try her best to explore every avenue, to make every compromise which is practical to achieve that peace. But, we have to be realistic. We have to face realities. We know that it is not enough to be just, you have to be strong enough to defend yourself.
“We have learned, that even though we are only two and a half million, and there are sixty to eighty million Arabs, there would be no problem for us, militarily, to withstand Arab forces by ourselves. We can take care of ourselves if we can maintain the same proportions of military hardware.”
He is not optimistic about the chance for peace, because as he said, “unfortunately, the governing factors in that part of the world are not logical, not reasoning.”
He cited other major factors as obstacles to peace. The first, in his eyes, is the fact that one side is seeking total annihilation of the other side, who wants only peaceful co-habitation. The second is that the Middle East is not one entity, and as such, not all the Arab countries want the same thing.
“We say to our neighbors we are ready to talk and negotiate peace. But, a peace should be agreed, and not
'DEAR FRIENDS’
CONTINUING
IN STOP GAP
''Dear Friends,” an Experimental Theater production, opened in Stop Gap Theatre last night. It will continue through Saturday.
Due to an oversight, the Daily Trojan neglected to publicize the opening of the play.
Tickets for "Dear Friends" are priced at $2.50. Curtain time for all performances is 8:30 p.m.
Coro Foundation seeks to build leaders for community action
Unidentified Cowboy
Wayne will perform in Hope show
USC alumnus John “Duke” Wayne, will return to his alma mater to perform in the Bob “USC” Hope Show, Nov. 25 in the Sports Arena, Bob Hope Productions announced over the weekend.
Appearing with Wayne will be Hope, Glen Campbell. Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66, Juliet Prowse. “Sweet Dick” Whittington, Les Brown and his band of Renown and the USC football squad in a program designed to raise money for scholarships to disadvantaged students.
Wayne served as the 1967-68 National Chairman of the annual Giving Program, an alumni appeal.
Choice seats for the show are still available at Bovard Auditorium or the Sports Arena box office. Ticket prices are $25. $7.50. $5. and $3.
Pretend you are a member of the Board of Health in a city threatened by an epidemic. How would you allocate vaccine and handle publicity to inform the public of the danger?
This is the type of question a student might be asked as an applicant to the Coro Foundation internship program. The aim of the program is to merge the academic world with the real one to increase community awareness and personal effectiveness.
With intern programs in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the foundation works with organizations like the Watts Labor Community Action Council, the city manager’s office and labor union councils to provide its interns with first hand experience with the day to day functioning of the community.
Although the program has been compared to a post-graduate course in public administration, training prople for office is not its sole purpose. Its goal is to provide the community with leaders and persons who can be agents of change, including the woman who is married and becomes president of the PTA. The key word is interest.
The nine-month program, starting in September each year, involves a series of six-week training assignments with government agencies, businesses, labor unions, and community agencies. These assignments are supplemented with weekly seminar meetings in which the interns present reports, interview guests, and do projects under the supervision of the Coro staff.
A five-week group project is conducted with the interns doing field research on such topics as the administration of criminal justice, employment and unemployment, and urban regeneration.
Each intern also conducts a two month individual research project for a public or semi-public agency in the field of his own special interest.
Interns are granted a $3,600 fellowship, and are usually given a 11-S draft status during their internship.
Students who are interested in the program may make appointments for interviews through the Placement office in Bruce Hall. Applications for the program may also be obtained at the Los Angeles office of the Coro Foundation at 649 S. Olive St.
imposed,” he said, explaining however that the Israelis would be willing to have intermediaries to help clear away the underbrush before serious talks were begun.
“We do not seek real estate. We seek peace and security arrangements.”
From time to time there was heckling from some Arab students in the audience, but most of it did not come until later when Rabin took questions from the audience.
The heckling began when he touched upon the subject of guerilla warfare. Someone in the audience shouted “Murder” and he replied simply “whatever you want to call it. I do not care.”
He repeatedly stressed the idea that whatever happens, the Israelis will survive it. His bravado was cool and softspoken, but unmistakeable.
The problem for him seemed to be not st much if Israel can survive war, he is sure she can, but whether or not
ASSC Council meets today
The ASSC Executive Council will meet today at 3 p.m. in Student Activities Center 201.
Independent representative Jeff Elliot will present a resolution on military conscription to the council, and reports on the campus police investigation and graduate student social life will be given.
she will be able to continue her economic and social development as a nation under such conditions.
“Unless peace can be achieved, we will have to live under a certain burden. However, we can live with it.”
He cited the country’s progress during the past twenty years, a period of sporadic fighting, as proof that they will be able to continue their growth.
“The reason Israel was created was not to fight wars. The main reason was, to try to renew, to rebuild a Jewish state, based on traditional Jewish values, coupled with Western civilization, to serve as a model of democracy in that part of the world.”
During the question and answer period, he was asked about the refugee problem. He replied by bringing up the example of the Jews who have spent hundreds of years as refugees. He agreed that something must be done for these people though, and he denied that any one lived in refugee concentration camps today. He said that they have the same rights as other citizens, except that Arabs are not forced to serve in the armed forces.
Concerning the role of the Soviet Union in Middle Eastern problems, he said that he did not think the Arab nations were Communists, but circumstances have lead the Russians and the Arabs to have common interests.
The Arab students had remained rather polite during the speech, with a few loud exceptions. As he left, they rose to give him a standing ovation, friendly or otherwise.
Trustees order S.F. State opened 'now’
LOS ANGELES (CNS)-California State College Trustees have ordered the San Francisco campus opened “immediately.”
The action followed a day-long meeting of the board in Los Angeles yesterday.
The trustees also ruled that campus administrators could not negotiate, arbitrate or concede to student groups until the college was functioning normally.
The trustees action, however, did not specifically state when the campus would be open, leaving that decision up to Robert R. Smith, president of the college.
In a sense the resolution, passed by voice vote, was almost an endorsement of an earlier announcement by Smith that he plans to reopen the college tomorrow.
Gov. Ronald Reagan, an ex-officio member and president of the board, said he was satisfied with the resolution.
The college president admitted the problem on campus was not solved and administrators had not worked out specific demands which led to the strike.
Smith closed the college Wednesday due to violence sparked by the suspension of George Madon Murray, a Black Panther, as a part-time English instructor.
Glenn S. Dumke, state college chancellor, ordered Murray suspended due to the Black Panther’s alleged inflammatory statements. He has said that he will not rescind the suspension order.
Medium to speak at noon today
A noted psychic researcher will speak on “New Dimensions of Religion and Science” today at noon in the Student Activities Center. The speech is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
Arthur Ford, once hailed as “America’s most famous living medium,” was the “sensitive” involved in the televised account of Bishop James Pike’s alleged communication with his deceased son. This is detailed in Pike’s recent book “The Other Side,” currently being published in installments by Look magazine.
Ford’s 40 years of experience as an investigator of psychic phenomena are described in his auto biography, “Nothing So Strange.”
CLIMBING FILM SET TONIGHT
Mountaineer Paul Gerhard will speak tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center, not tonight as reported in yesterday's Daily Trojan.
Gerhard will stage a 90-minute presentation with photographs of the 1968 Mt. St. Elias expedition. Admission is $1.50.
Burl Ives flick shot near campus
Alienation from society to be discussed tonight
“The New Student’s Alienation from Society” is the topic of a speech to be given tonight at 8 in Hancock Auditorium as part of a series sponsored by the Experimental College!.
Dr. David W. Martin, professor of sociology1 in the School of Education and director of the KRLA-KUSC Free University of the Air. will give the second in a series of four speeches. The series, for parents and students, is entitled “The New Student: His Values, Politics. Loves and Highs.”
As part of his presentation. Dr.
Martin will present a film and slide show, “Fresh Garbage.” The film, which requires six slide projectors and two movie projectors on three screens, attempts to illustrate the nature of today’s music and show how it reflects the alienation of students to society. The Department of Instructional Technology' produced the film.
According to Steve Foldes, chairman of the Experimental College, “Dr. Martin should blow the parents’ minds!” Admission to the speech and film is free.
By JAN SHORT
Characteristically tipping his tweed cap and puffing a pipe, Burl Ives lumbered up to a two-story white house on 30th Street near the USC campus yesterday afternoon and greeted a Negro housewife hosing the front lawn.
“Pardon me, M’am, do you know where I can find my son ...”
“CUT! Next time cut off the hose!”
The neighborhood spectators began to mill around as Ives dropped his briefcase and conversed with the sweatshirted director and the “landlady” on the sidewalk.
Completing the 11th and final day of local shooting yesterday for a Universal City television pilot called “The Whole World is Watching,” the same cast and crew has good chances of permanently working togather next year in the pilot’s series, “The Adversaries.”
“It has excellent chances ... I’d say about 90 percnet ... of being sold to NBC,” production manager Kenneth Grossman predicted, watching the hussle from his folding chair behind the camera line. Grossman has been producing “Trojan Huddle” with Coach John McKay for nine years.
“It’s going to be a Defender-type series about three lawyers in a legal firm. Ives, James Farentino, and Joe Campenella will star.
“This particular episode deals with revolts in colleges. A policeman has been killed and Ives traces the murder-suspect to this apartment house. We’ve spent five nights and four days over in Exposition Park, our unidentified college. This morning we were filming some scenes around Alice’s and Currie’s.”
Ives ambled over to his chair next to Grossman’s, joining in the explanation of the projected series and carrying on an animated conversation with a six or seven-year-old Negro girl at the same time.
“This series is going to deal with important questions,” the bearded Ives said, examining the tin foil diamond ring of his admirer. “My only other attempt at a regular show was about three years ago, a fantastic flop called ‘O.K. Crackerbox.’ Nobody watched it here but it went over great in Ireland.”
“Ouch! You hurt my hand!” the little girl teased. Ives withdrew his massive hand, then sheepishly stuck out one fat finger for her to shake.
FILMING AT USC—Dick Colla, director, Charlie Straumer, cameraman, Joseph Campanella, actor, and an unidentified technician discuss progress of TV Pilot "The Adversaries." Photo by Jamie Baldwin
Israel wants only 'real' peace, ambassador says